Re: [Bodington-developers] bod and GX take-up - news

[Sean M. <se...@sm...>]

adam, we will bring you a cheese at the buzz!


<quote who=3D"Adam Marshall">
> I thought I'd post this news here rather than in 2 separate bits!
>
> Saw Mark 'Stubbsy' Stubbs yesterday who said that they are thinking of
> using
> Bod as the authN engine for their TRIX project (sp?). I can't find
> anything
> about this project probably because I don't know how to spell it!
>
> I also harangued Francis Lowry from Nottingham Trent telling him that t=
hey
> should use GuanXi as their shibboleth solution. This will be for the
> Nottingham universities Passport
> http://www.cityofnottinghampassport.com/what_is.htm. I will point him t=
o
> the
> GX list later on today - I rather foolishly promised him that we (ie yo=
u)
> would help him if he got stuck trying to use GX. I think that they were
> already looking at GuanXi but my friendly approach made him more
> confident.
>
> I also badgered Serge Ravet (chief exec of Eifel - Euro institute for
> e-learning - http://www.eife-l.org/eifel) about GuanXi (and of course g=
ave
> him a t-shirt). He was particularly interested and asked when we were
> going
> to look at machine to machine shibbing. He sounds like an influential g=
uy
> and we could definitely gain some friends there.
>
> Do we have an estimate of when this work will start? I guess it's part =
of
> ASK work; it would be nice to tell him our timeline.  He suggested that
> the
> GuanXi team attend the next planned plugfest in cambs in October
> http://www.eife-l.org/news/pressrelease/ep2005/view?searchterm=3Dplugfe=
st
> this
> would be good publicity. I have more details here if you want.
>
> adam
>
> --
> Adam Marshall:       OUCS, 13, Banbury Rd. Oxford OX2 6NN.
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> Cheese of the month: Cheshire (not to be underestimated)
>
>
>
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Sean Mehan
Head of Computing Research
SMO, UHI